Nec Corporation

Shigehiro Ichimura

Akihisa Kurashima

Kazuhiro Sakata

Naoki Shiota

Akira Uematsu

A portable terminal device () includes a touch panel display () which displays information such as character strings, vibration setting information () which stores character strings and vibration patterns in association with each other, a control unit () which recognizes an image displayed on the touch panel display () as a character string, and a vibration generating unit () which generates vibration in a particular vibration pattern. The control unit () determines a character string from among a displayed image, obtains a pattern of vibration corresponding to the determined character string referring to the vibration setting information (), and causes the vibration generating unit () to generate vibration in the obtained vibration pattern.

Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and recording medium

A remote operation system includes a user terminal and a mediation server. The mediation server is configured to execute a registration procedure to start a remote operation of the user terminal from a support terminal. The user terminal includes a telephone function unit, and is configured to allow transmitting, from the user terminal to the mediation server, registration data regarding the remote operation on a condition that the telephone function unit is performing a telephone call.

Mobile terminal, remote operation system, data transmission control method by mobile terminal, and non-transitory computer readable medium

In a content delivery system, a gatekeeping apparatus is connected to a network. Prior to the transmission of a request message to a content server, a user terminal transmits an enquiry message to the gatekeeping apparatus. In response, the gatekeeping apparatus makes a decision as to whether or not a content can be retrieved from the content server and performs control on the transmission of the request message according to the decision. If the decision indicates that a content can be retrieved, the user terminal transmits the request message to the content server. In a preferred embodiment, the gatekeeping apparatus makes comparison between user's preference data and server's policy data and determines whether the requested content can be retrieved from the server. A cache memory may be provided in the user terminal or gatekeeping apparatus to store past decisions regarding requested contents.

Content delivery system

In response to a first location request message from a client terminal, a gateway stores the message and requests the location information of a target mobile terminal from a location information system. If a second location request message is received from other client terminal requesting the location information of the same mobile terminal while the initial client terminal is waiting for the requested information, the second location request message is stored. Reply messages are sent simultaneously to these client terminals when the requested information is received. In a modified embodiment, if location request messages are received from multiple client terminals for the same target mobile terminal, they are stored in a memory, which is then searched at periodic intervals. If the message of at least one client terminal is detected, the gateway acquires location information of the target terminal from the system and transmits a reply message to client terminals.

Method of operating a gateway with a location information system

In a conference system, documents such as conference records used in the conference can be made to distribute efficiently without obstructing transmission of the real-time data such as cine image data. Hence, a broadcasting network is provided in addition to communication lines , and connecting conference terminals , and used by users participating in the conference and a conference control device with a function of distributing real-time data such as cine image data transmitted from the conference terminals , and to the other conference terminals , and participating in the conference, and each of the conference terminals , and is connected to the broadcasting network . The conference terminals distributing the conference records to the other conference terminals distributes the conference records to the other destination conference terminals with broadcasting communication through the broadcasting network

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Tokyo, Japan

Shigehiro Ichimura